Hub for vehicle-wheels



(No Model.)

0. W. FILLMORE.

HUB FOR VEHICLE WHEELS.

Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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WITNESSES:

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CHARLES FILLlllOBE, (1F lllAI-ZEIGO, ILLINOIS.

HUB FOR VEHlCLE-WH EELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,927, dated August 25, 185.

Application filed June 11, 1885.

To all whom it may concern Be known it that I, OIIARLEs \V. FILL- MORE, a resident of Marengo, in the county of McIIenry and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in VehicleHubs and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to impiovements in hubs for vehicles, and is fully described and claimed in the following specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of a hub with my improvements in place; Fig. 2, a central longitudinal section passing through two opposite spokes; Fig. 3, a section perpendicular to the axis of the hub, through 00 y, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow a; Fig. 4, a sideelevation of the metallic retaining-bar E and Fig. 5, a section of E, made on the dotted line 121, looking in the direction a, Fig. 4.

In Fig. 1 A is the body of a wooden hub;

B, a band of metal encircling it and in contact therewith; G, aperture in said band, correspondin g in size and form to the crossscction of the larger part of an ordinary spoke, F.

ff are mortises for the reception of tenons F,

Fig. 3, on spokes F. c c are shoulders on which the shoulders G G, Fig. 3, of the spokes rest.

In Fig. 2 the metallic retaining bar E is shown in longitudinal section sunken into the body of the hub A, its outer edge being flush with the outer surface of said hub. are also shows the opening H for the axis of the vehicle and the thickness of the band B, as well as its position with reference to the retaining-bars E.

Fig. 3 is entirely in section and shows the parts A A of the hub lying between the spoke-ten'ons F F, which are all in place, the bars E E resting upon the outer surfaces of the portions A A of the hub, and held in (No model.)

in Fig. 5, but has upon each side, at a suitable distance from the end to allow the'passage of the spoke, a gain or groove, I, between the shoulders c c. When, as in Fig. 1, the spokes are not all in the same plane, these grooves on the two sides of the bar E are not exactly opposite, but, as shown in Fig. 5, where one gain or groove lies between 0 and c, and the one on the opposite side between 121 and m.

In forming this wheel the hub is mortised tor the insertion of the metallic retainingbars E, and the wood is further cut away to permit the larger part of the spoke to pass inward to the shoulders c c, and the tenonmortisefis cut to the axial opening H, or to any desired depth. The bars E are then placed in position and the band B is forced over the hub, care being taken that its openings are made to coincide with the recesses in the hub. The spokes are then inserted and driven home, when, so far as the union of hub and spokes is concerned, the wheel is com pleted, the abovedescribed parts being now joincd in such manner as to secure great strength and rigidity, combined with simplicity and cheapncss of construction.

I am aware that wooden hubs with various metallic strengthening attachments have been heretofore employed, and I do not therefore claim such construction, broadly; but

What I. do claim as novel, and'of the substance of my invention, is

1. The combination, with a wooden hub having a series of spokemortises adapted to receive the full-sized ends of aseries of spokes and having a series of tenon-mortises extending inward from said spoke-mortises, of a series of metal retainingplates flush with the close contact therewith by the band B also,

surface of the hub, lyin between said spokemortises and forming the side walls thereof, and a single-piece band encircling said hub and retaining-plates and formed with openings for the admission of the spokes to said spoke-mortises.

2. The combination, with a wooden hub having a series of spoke-mortises adapted to receive the full-sized ends of a series of spokes and having a series of tenonmortises extendin g inward from said spoke-mortises, of a series of metal retaining-plates flush with the surface of the hub, lying between said spokemortises and forming the side walls thereof,

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and having their ends embedded in the wood of the hub on opposite sides of the line of said spoke-inortises and a single-piece band encircling said hub and said retaining-plates, and formed with openings correspondingin size and position to said spoke-niortises.

3. The combination, with a wooden hub having a series of spoke-inortises and a series of tenon-mortises extending inward from said spoke-inortises, of a series of spokes whose tenons lie in said tenon-inoitises and whose tenonshonlders rest on the bottom of said spoke-mortises, a series of metal retainingplates lying between the spokes and having their ends embedded in the wood of the hub on opposite sides of the plane of the spokes, and a singlepiece metal band encircling the hub and the retaining-plates and formed with openings for the admission ot the spokes.

4. lhe combination with a wooden hub having" a series of spoke-inortises and a series of tenon-mortises extending inward from said spoke-niortises, of the metal retaining-plates E, shown and described, lying between said spoke-inortises, and the single-piece band B encircling said hub and retaining-plates and formed with openings for the admission of the spokes to the spoke-niortiscs each of said retaining-plates being" flush with the surface of the wooden hub and consisting of a body adapted to till the space between two cont-iguous spokes and two projecting ends of greater thickness than the body and embedded in the wood of the hub on opposite sides of the line of inortises.

5. The combination, with the hub A, harin aseries of spoke-niortises and a series of tenon-niortiscs extending inward from said spoke-inortises of the retainin g-plates E, lying between said spoke-mortises and having their ends embedded in the wood of the hub on opposite sides of the line of inortises of the single-piece band B encircling said hub and retaining-plates, and having openings corresponding to the spoke-mortises, each .of said retaining-plates having in its opposite faces the gains or grooves I, to permit the admission otspokes to the spokeniortises, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set t'orth.

In testimony whereof 1 have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

UH ARLES \V. Fl LLMO RE.

Witnesses J. A. GRAIN, M. H. 'W1LcoXoN. 

